{"id":8480,"date":"2025-01-14T17:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8480"},"modified":"2025-01-14T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:48:00","slug":"u-s-egg-industry-sees-record-chicken-deaths-from-bird-flu-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/14\/u-s-egg-industry-sees-record-chicken-deaths-from-bird-flu-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. egg industry sees record chicken deaths from bird flu outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/egg-industry-chicken-deaths-bird-flu\/\">CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data<\/a>&nbsp;from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows, marking the worst toll inflicted on America&#8217;s egg supply since the outbreak began.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The record number of chicken deaths, which includes those birds culled when infection is discovered in a flock, come as figures show&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/eggs-shortages-bird-flu-h5n1-whole-foods-trader-joes\/\">egg prices<\/a>&nbsp;have soared to the highest they have been in years, driven in large part by the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Unlike in past years, in 2024, all major production systems experienced significant losses including conventional caged, cage-free, and certified organic types,&#8221; a USDA report said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.usda.gov\/mnreports\/ams_3725.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this month<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taxpayers will pick up the tab for the lost birds. To incentivize farmers to quickly report and stomp out the virus, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/fs-hpai-indemnity-and-compensation.508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USDA program<\/a>&nbsp;pays producers for the eggs and poultry they cull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/egg-industry-chicken-deaths-bird-flu\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu,&nbsp;data&nbsp;from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows, marking the worst toll inflicted on America&#8217;s egg supply since the outbreak began.&nbsp; The record number of chicken deaths, which includes those birds culled when infection is discovered in a flock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8481,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions\/8481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}